{"article":{"id":105229,"heading":"Witness to Occupation: Iraq and Palestine","author":"karl","created":"2004-03-18 05:03:30","modified":"2004-03-18 08:23:19","last_modified":"Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:23:19","article":"

Witness to Occupation: Iraq and Palestine

FEATURING: Toufic Haddad

Activist from Ramallah, West Bank and coeditor of

Between the Lines

Khury Petersen-Smith

Campus Anti-War Network

Visited Iraq in January with United for Peace and

Justice, Global Exchange and Occupation Watch

Ayham Dahi

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

On the resistance in Iraq

WHEN: Thursday, March 18, 6:30pm

WHERE: United Teachers Los Angeles Building, 3303

Wilshire Blvd, just west of Wilshire and Vermont

SPONSORED BY (list in formation): American-Arab

Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Los Angeles\/Orange

County, Free Palestine Alliance, International

Socialist Organization, LA US Labor Against War, San

Gabriel Valley Neighbors for Peace and Justice,

Students for Justice in Palestine (UCLA)

WHY: Prepare for the March 20 International Day of

Action against Occupation (www.answerla.org) with a

discussion of the current state of the U.S. occupation

of Iraq, the links between Iraq and Palestine in the

U.S.'s plans for a \"new Middle East\", and the

resistance in Iraq and elsewhere.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 213-309-2713

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","author":"if ever..","parent_id":105229,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-03-18 06:07:48","modified":"2004-03-18 06:07:48","fileurl":""},{"id":105235,"heading":"Poems in Memory of Rachel Corrie","article":"\r\n\r\nI wish I could look into your hardened eyes, \r\nwho drove that tractor as young Rachel dies \r\nIs there love in your tractor, of fifty-two tons \r\nis hope and desire in your tanks or your guns \r\nIf she could be with us, Rachel Corrie would say ... \r\nUmm ... If you see a bulldozer, get out of the way? \r\nComments \r\nBut dozer rhymes so easily with hoser and poser. \r\nPosted by: Brian J. at July 29, 2003 at 05:07 AM \r\nIs there love in your tractor, O cruel Farmer Brown? \r\nDo you feel no pity as you cut your hay down? \r\nIs the IDF silo filled with wheat, or hate? \r\nDid you leave your compassion by the chicken coop gate? \r\nAnd what of Mrs. Brown cooling her pies \r\nOn the windowsill as hope for Gaza dies? \r\nIs the 52 tons of your husbands fell tractor \r\nA weight that your cold Israeli heart can factor? \r\nPosted by: Joe G at July 29, 2003 at 05:41 AM \r\nOhhhhh, Jimmie crack corn, and I don't care, \r\nRachel's gone to God knows where, \r\nIf you see a dozer you best bewaaarrrreee, \r\nAnd get the hell outta the way. \r\nPosted by: JohnO at July 29, 2003 at 06:01 AM \r\nAnd now the end is near \r\nBecause I face a big bulldozer \r\nThat guy who's got the keys \r\nHe doesn't stop 'cause he's a hoser.... \r\nPosted by: Mark from Monroe at July 29, 2003 at 06:22 AM \r\nHaiku for Rachel \r\n"Dont you know dozers \r\nMake mere humans flat and dead? \r\nNot like in cartoons." \r\nPosted by: E.A. at July 29, 2003 at 06:37 AM \r\n"If Rachel Corrie could be with us she'd say, 'Shit, damn, Hell that hurts!! Ouch, ouch, ouch. Jeebus damn that hurts.' \r\nPosted by: JorgXMcKie at July 29, 2003 at 06:51 AM \r\nOnce upon a pile of rubble, in a self important bubble, \r\nA gal named Rachel boldly stood for Palestines cause. \r\nWhen the Jews, they came acrashing. Several buildings they were smashing, \r\nAnd terrorist tunnels they were trashing, even though theyd surely pause. \r\nIm an American, she thought, and I know theyll surely pause. \r\nIm sure they will, just because. \r\nSo she stood there, bravely battened, never guessing shed be flattened? \r\nPosted by: Ken Begg at July 29, 2003 at 07:43 AM \r\n101 Uses For A Squished Hippie Chick \r\n1. Flight deck wheel chocks for US aircraft carrier \r\n2. Handy swifter for cleaning that hard-to-reach area under the refridgerator coils \r\n3. Environmentally-friendly roofing material \r\n4. Gym decorations for Evergreen State U. spring prom (theme: 'Enchantment Under The Treads') \r\n5. Four-man toboggan at Zionist ski resort \r\n6. Glue on some casters and voila! a dandy garage creeper crawler \r\nPosted by: iowahawk at July 29, 2003 at 09:43 AM \r\nThere was a terror-lover called Corrie \r\nwho made a grave mistake for which she was sorry \r\nShe said "While in hell I burn, \r\nthe lesson I've learned \r\nIs that its much more quick and painless with a lorry." \r\nPosted by: Bob Brown at July 29, 2003 at 11:16 AM \r\nHippies splatter mighty fine, \r\nWhen you hit 'em with a D9- \r\nI didn't mean her any harm, \r\nShe just didn't hear the reversing alarm. \r\nNow I'm felling mighty sorry, \r\nFor running my dozer over Rachael Corrie, \r\nRemorse I'm feeling to the max, \r\n"Cause I've gotta clean her outa my tracks. \r\nPosted by: Habib Bickford at July 29, 2003 at 11:46 AM \r\n1. If you're looking into a bulldozer driver's eyes, you're standing too close. \r\n2. It's "died" not "dies." Yes, it doesn't rhyme that way, but tough luck. "Dies" is just wrong. \r\n3. If there'd been love, hope and despair in the tractor (bulldozer), it would have been even heavier, but not up to 52 tons. That's a Jenin-style number. A very quick google quotes Rachel's friends as saying the dozer weighed nine to 10 tons. Enough. \r\nPosted by: Joanne Jacobs at July 29, 2003 at 12:02 PM \r\nBit like getting close and personal with Phillip Adams. \r\nIf Fat Boy gets the horn, does he have to charter a Kato crane? \r\n(The crane driver would have to be paid danger money, and have a high quality blindfold and excellent earmuffs.) \r\nPosted by: Habib Bickford at July 29, 2003 at 12:36 PM \r\node to rachel, an earth-loving leftie who paid the ultimate price: being squashed by a large, noisy piece of agricultural machinery while protesting in a muddy field. \r\na fiat or a fergie? \r\na john deere or a case? \r\nallis-chalmers, david brown \r\neuclid or kobase? \r\nnew holland, caterpillar \r\nkubota or a ford? \r\nminneapolis-moline, \r\nbelarus or lagord? \r\nhaybaler, crusher, backhoe, \r\ngrader or bobcat? \r\nit doesnt really matter now \r\nthe poor young girl is flat \r\nshe have been misguided \r\nwith sadly misplaced zeal \r\nbut no-one deserves to be martyred \r\nbeneath a dozer wheel. \r\nPosted by: pooh at July 29, 2003 at 01:08 PM \r\nIf she was alive today she might say "Get me the F@#$ out of this box!!!". \r\nPosted by: Jake D at July 29, 2003 at 01:42 PM \r\nPro-Palestinian protest "peace" dingbat, \r\nGets in the road and gets squashed flat, \r\nWe're supposed to weep and wail, \r\nCause she was scooped up in a pail, \r\nSorry for nothing, flat-earth hippie, \r\nI'm inclined to yell out yippie, \r\nYour ideas ain't worth tuppence, \r\nAnd you got your come-uppance. \r\nPosted by: Habib Bickford at July 29, 2003 at 01:50 PM \r\nAnd now here's the news at seven: \r\n"Our little Rachel's gone to heaven, \r\nNot to the other place and so she didn't \r\nneed no shoes. \r\nShe wasn't all that bad \r\nAlthough it made Israelis mad, \r\nFor them Palis weren't doin' nothin' \r\n'cept a-killin' of some Jews." \r\nPosted by: Alex Bensky at July 29, 2003 at 02:31 PM \r\nRachel Corrie's dead and gone, \r\nbut the propaganda lingers on. \r\nWhen media fools are full of bliss, \r\nThey spin her into a Heroine, and make me want to piss. \r\n.... sung to the tune of Papa Hyden .... \r\nPosted by: Adriane at July 29, 2003 at 02:46 PM \r\nT'was an 'activist' of confused mind \r\nwho had a bad run-in with a CAT D9 \r\nAll medical help was nay-sayed \r\n"She doesn't need any first aid! \r\n"As a propoganda tool she'll do fine." \r\nPosted by: pappy at July 30, 2003 at 03:40 AM \r\nwell, in the interest of bad taste: \r\nif i had the wit or skill \r\nof a famous old composer \r\ni'd pen a paen to the kill \r\nwrought by that bulldozer \r\noh sing, oh muse, of that bitter face \r\nwe saw burning up a flag \r\ncontrast the angel some would place \r\non that slippery pile of slag \r\noh behemoth of oil and steel \r\nthat flattened young miss corrie \r\ncold hearted beast; but do you feel \r\nyou dug in the wrong quarry? \r\nthere're those who'll claim i'm cruel, \r\n'tis true; but i haven't lionized her \r\nnor cast the blame on sharon's tool \r\nand cry they've zionized her \r\nher death was sad, her life too brief \r\nshe did deserve much better \r\nbut have her 'friends' shown equal grief \r\nfor those in uday's shredder? \r\nPosted by: Mr. Bingley at July 30, 2003 at 06:02 AM \r\nIt's easy to play on the guitar. Every note is B-flat. \r\nPosted by: Laurence Simon at July 30, 2003 at 12:49 PM \r\nHere's my version, with apologies to Edwin Arlington Robinson. \r\nPosted by: John Tabin at July 30, 2003 at 04:20 PM \r\nOh hilarious, hey i've got one: \r\nHey is that a plane? \r\nSeppos falling to their death \r\npour another wine.... \r\nYou pathetic pieces of shit. \r\nPosted by: sphincter at July 30, 2003 at 04:28 PM \r\n"Pour another wine?" \r\nPosted by: Angus Jung at July 30, 2003 at 04:42 PM \r\nDear Mr Sphincter \r\nIt is polite to excuse yourself after passing wind. \r\nYou are excused. Carry on. \r\nPosted by: Razor at July 30, 2003 at 05:45 PM \r\nThanks raze, at least I refrained from following through. \r\nAngus, pour another wine has 5 syllables, so good haiku closure material. I know it isn't very literary, but I just thought I'd evoke an image, of someone drinking to the artistry of 11\/9... revelling in murder, as the pieces of shit on this page are doing. \r\nMurder kids, it isn't really that funny.... \r\nPosted by: sphincter at July 30, 2003 at 06:31 PM \r\nmurder? not at all. her death was an accident, caused in part by her hubris, in part by the bulldozer operator. \r\nPosted by: Mr. Bingley at July 30, 2003 at 10:05 PM \r\noh, hey, and thanks for expanding my vocabulary; i had to google 'seppos' to figure out what the hell you were talking about. geesh, we call the brits limeys (and i can't even think of a derogatory term for australians...except maybe olivia newton john) and we're septic tanks? must be cause we take all the world's shit...;) \r\nPosted by: Mr. Bingley at July 31, 2003 at 12:05 AM \r\nTo the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" \r\nRachel Corrie went to Palestine \r\nto free the Arab mob, \r\nburning flags and sleeping round \r\nand acting like a yob. \r\nShe sought to save the pimps and punks \r\nand generate a sob, \r\nbut a D-9 ended that. \r\n[chorus] \r\nRachel Corrie got run over, \r\nRachel Corrie got run over, \r\nRachel Corrie got run over, \r\na D-9 ended that. \r\nShe climbed atop a mound of dirt \r\nto stop the dreaded foe. \r\nHer heart was full of hubris \r\nher enemy named Moe. \r\nThe D-9 was large and loud \r\nand so she turned to go \r\nbut a D-9 ended that. \r\n[chorus] \r\nNow Rachel lies flattened \r\nbeneath the Army tread. \r\nHer pimps and pushers honor her \r\nrepeating what she said. \r\nBut nothing makes up for the fact \r\nthat she's really, really dead. \r\nA D-9 ended that. \r\n[chorus] \r\nPosted by: Chuck at July 31, 2003 at 12:30 AM \r\nIn honor of Rachel Corrie, all bulldozers should from now on be known as "Corrie Crushers". \r\nPosted by: Frank J. at July 31, 2003 at 12:40 AM \r\n"The Centre for Political Song exists to promote and foster an awareness of all forms of political song; an appreciation of the role of political song in the social, political and cultural life of communities; and to facilitate research in all relevant areas of study. The Centre itself will remain free from any political bias in its collecting and organisational policies." \r\nshall we send them this thread and see if it they add it to their archives? \r\nPosted by: Mr. Bingley at July 31, 2003 at 12:55 AM \r\nHaiku time: \r\nAshes to Ashes \r\nRachel did hear that morning \r\nAfter dozer stopped \r\n","author":"Khalil Mustafa al Hossein","parent_id":105229,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-03-18 08:23:19","modified":"2004-03-18 08:23:19","fileurl":""}]}